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– Happy New Year! This page took a little longer to get posted. I did most of the line art while I was at NewCon last weekend, but a sinus infection and a New Year’s Eve party kept me from getting the coloring done. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep up my regular schedule this year. That’s my resolution.

– NewCon was great, by the way. Tiny little first year con, but full of great people and a great artist alley. Once again Ben and I boothed next to Cyndy of Quorum of Cute. Here’s a picture. Yes, I have a new haircut. It’ll grow out eventually.

– I’ll be participating in the next Comics Underground on Jan 1oth. That’s next week! I’ll be doing a reading of the first 24 strips of Modest Medusa for a live audience at the Jack London bar here in Portland. Colleen Coover and Jenn Vaughn will also be reading. Should be good!

– Toys! I had a chat with Daven over at Shouldbee.com before Christmas. We talked about the feedback that you guys provided and what they’d like to do with Modest Medusa. Based on the survey it looks like most of you would like to see a Modest Medusa plush toy (what I think of as a stuffed animal), and a lot of you would like to see 3-4 inch plastic toys based on Medusa, Marah, the Chainsaw Unicorn, the Mermaids and the Drudge Angel ( Charles and I were way down at the bottom of the list). Both are possible according to Daven. The process they’ll likely use to get this project rolling is an ongoing pre-order. Once they have enough orders they’ll put the product into production. From what I understand this is how a lot of smaller toy companies operate (which makes sense to me). Alternatively, if they think they’ll sell enough of the product right away they may just skip the pre-orders and jump right into production, producing a small run of 200 or so toys. So here’s my questions… how many of you would order a Modest Medusa toy if they were made available this Spring? Would you prefer a plastic toy or a plush toy? Would you pre-order, or only order once the toy was available to ship? We need this information to know how viable this project is. Let me know what you think.

– Mark Oakly is doing an Indiegogo campaign for his new Star Drop book. Mark is the creator of Thieves and Kings, one of my favorite comics of all time. Star Drop is great fun too, and the project is totally worth your support!

Discussion (44) ¬

I would definitely buy a plush medusa toy. And I would pre-order it. I would probably buy a plastic toy too, but I’d want to see what it looked like first, so I would be less likely to pre-order a plastic one.

That is a really nice forestscape, and I can see why it took so long to produce.
Most excellent and fantastic job, Jake.
As far as toys go, I would most definitely preorder (assuming I had the disposable income at that point in time), and either a plush or a plastic toy would be fine for me. A plush would probably be gifted to a few people, a plastic toy would sit on my desk.
Also, there is nothing wrong with short hair! I got my hair cut shorter than normally I would (soldier cut instead of my usual astronaut or Senator cut) and as of right now, while I am totally broke and cannot afford a haircut, it is the perfect length, slightly longer than astronaut cut, though not in the style of a Senator cut. It’s fine for when Uni starts again next week. =D

I would preorder, yes. I’d have to see what the proposed prices would be, but I’d likely order one of everything (and multiple plushies because I have a plushie addiction and like to send them to friends as well).

I would definitely get some Modest Medusa toys when/if they become available, with or without a pre-order. I like the idea of plastic figures, but a plush would be nice depending on who(the Chainsaw Unicorn and Pirates would fit perfectly).

I definitely want plushies (Medusa & Unicorn), but I’m most likely to buy them if you were to bring them to this year’s Gencon Indy. (You *will* be coming back to Indianapolis, won’t you?) If not, I suppose I’d be willing to pre-order after seeing a proof-of-concept prototype.

That is an awesome Tardis outfit. At my local comic-con this year I saw a couple of versions of that. And a girl in a Dalek Dress. She had a headband with little light buds on it and was carrying an egg whisk and a plunger. 😀

In regards to toys… tempting. But I’m always hesitant to order these things cos I don’t know if they’ll make it all the way here to New Zealand. 🙂

I have no idea how large it will be yet, but we’ll probably figure that out in the next month or so. I’d really like it to be medium sized (what does that mean?), but we’ll see what the Shouldbee guys have in mind.

Shipping to Canada? No problem! I do it all the time and I’ve found it isn’t too expensive.

Love the artwork, and the concept of the door that connects to… Who knows (yet). I also go off topic, and sadly announce the death of my brown and white skunk, Professor Moriarty, aged 6 1/2 years. It was October 30th, and Hurricane Sandy was making things difficult. No vet appointment in time. Moriarty lived up to his name.

Not the hair! XD In all seriousness it’s not a bad look. Chopped mine off as well. Still love the comic cameos with it long. As for the toys and plush. I’d be up for a plush. The other toys kinda depend on how much and how good they look. (All this dependent on how close I am to the ramen only budget.)

I’d like to see what the prototype of the chainsaw unicorn looks like and really want to know how big it is but I could definately see one of them adorning my desk.
I keep thinking, if the scale works out it would be fun to incorporate that into a 40k army. Yeah I know my mind is wierd.